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Ellie’s grave
Ellie Stoneroad Patterson, my third-great grandmother, left this earth on July 16, 1909. She was buried among so many other Pattersons in the Lower Tuscarora Presbyterian Cemetery in Academia, Pennsylvania. Her memorial card was manufactured by H.F. Wendell & Co. of Leipsic, Ohio, “manufacturers of extra fine memorial cards.” The card is style number 2. (I don’t know why the death dates are a week apart from the card to the stone.)
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Grave stone, paid in full
My four-greats grandmother, Margaret Sigler Stoneroad (last written about as the subject of an acrostic urging her to remain chaste), died on May 29, 1876, with burial in her home in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. On August 8, 1876, her son-in-law, John Lyon Patterson (husband of Ellie Stoneroad Patterson) paid $38 for a set of gravestones for Margaret’s grave to Charles Stratford Jr. Stratford owned and operated Mount Union Marble Works and Lewistown Marble Works, a business he carried on from his father, Charles Stratford Sr., a marble cutter born in 1812 in Cheltenham, England.